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Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.

I'm the man that brought you the mullet.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I don't like the name, U2, actually.

I'm never nervous.

There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.

It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.